Abstract
Côte d'Ivoire has based its economic development on export-oriented agriculture of primary products (coffee, cocoa). The strong economic growth, called The «Ivorian Economic Miracle» of the years 1970 was supported by transport infrastructures and roads in particular. The extensive degradation of national roads has impacted negatively on the country's economic growth. This present study analyzes the contribution of roads to Ivorian national growth, mostly that of the sub-component: roads maintenance. The econometric study on time series is conducted using Eviews, and takes the actual maintenance budgets actually executed per capita as proxy for road investments. The results of short and long-term estimates show Ivorian private and public investments, exports and the labor force highly contribute to national growth, thus they are important channels of Ivorian growth. The negative impact of the budget really realized per capita on GDPR (-4.6%) thus demonstrates the effect of reducing roads to growth in Côte d'Ivoire. This confirms the hypothesis that the poor state of roads contributes to the country's declining growth. For Ivorian roads contribute positively to the national economy. We have determined thresholds for roads maintenance investments compared to national public and private investments, respectively 901.18% and 93.06%. These thresholds improve the contribution of roads maintenance at 79.65% and 64.62%proportionally to public and private investments. In order to enable roads to contribute positively to Côte d’Ivoire’s economic growth, the Ivorian state must index the executed budget to public or private investment in proportion to the thresholds set above.
Highlights
Infrastructures in general and transport infrastructures in particular are factors of social development and, regional and national economic growth
We are making changes by incorporating accessibility and road quality indicators that take into account the particularity of Côte d'Ivoire and those of roads, and it better shows the impact of roads on the Economic growth
1) The results of the vectors of error correction model (VECM) estimate show that the restoring force is negative and significantly different from zero, -0.3420; -1.6579; -1.4186 and -0.6622 respectively in the explanatory equations for the growth rates of GDPR, the roads maintenance per capita, the private investment and the exports
Summary
Infrastructures in general and transport infrastructures in particular are factors of social development and, regional and national economic growth. They provide direct support for productive activities and facilitate the movement of goods and people. Among the constituents of transport infrastructures, we are interested in roads. Roads interconnect production and/or storage areas to the different distribution and marketing zones. They promote the creation and (re)localization of localities (villages and towns), units and/or production activities; and the development of trade and leisure. The slow development of Africa results from the poor state of its infrastructures [1]
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